The South African National Accreditation System (SANAS) is the only national body responsible for carrying out accreditations in respect of conformity assessment, as a mandate
through the Accreditation for Conformity Assessment, Calibration and Good Laboratory
Practice Act (Act 19 of 2006) Apply for Accreditation.
Accreditation is important because it helps determine if an institution meets or exceeds
minimum quality standards.
To become a Verification Agency, any enterprise (public and private entities, including
auditors, accountants, lawyers, business associations, sector charter councils, consultants,
etc.) must apply to SANAS, in writing, for accreditation as a Verification Agency.
The mission of the South African National Accreditation System (SANAS) is to create an
impartial and transparent mechanism for companies to independently demonstrate
their competence (for purposes of this discussion, we are referring to the B-BBEE
Competence/ compliance) and facilitate the beneficial exchange of goods, services and knowledge. SANAS will then issue a BEE certificate to an accredited BEE Verification agency after the required verification process has taken place.
However, before such a BEE profile can be submitted to the verification agency, we advise you to ensure that all documents are included in the profile for every single contribution the company wishes to claim for on the rating of their BEE Certificate. Therefore, with our SEESA BEE consulting services, we do not only assist the company with the compiling of the BEE Profile for the submission to the verification agency, we also provide the company with an analysis and strategy to address the gaps and to provide solutions that may assist your business with addressing the elements of compliance which are often not met for B-BBEE.
SEESA’s BEE consulting services assist greatly with the finer details of the B-BBEE point
system and aims to prevent your company from losing out on any points of the respective
scorecard due to all documents / supporting information not being included in the profile or
due to minor inconsistencies. We are here to help with every step of the process, from strategising a plan of action to the gathering of information and documents needed for the BEE verification.
To find out how SEESA can help your business visit our website at www.seesa.co.za.
“SMS” the word “SEESA” to 45776 with your query and a professional Legal Advisor will contact you.